- The Return •••
My soul wants to fly away
When your Presence calls it so sweetly.
My soul wants to take flight
When you whisper, “Arise.”
A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King’s wrist
when it hears the drum beating “Return.”
A Sufi, shimmering with light,
wants to dance like a sunbeam
when darkness surrounds him
O God—you are the graceful and the beautiful,
you are the highest love,
you are the giver of life.
What misery and hardship comes
to those who turn away from you!
O bird, fly back to your native land.
You have broken free from your cage;
Your wings are eager for flight.
Fly from the brackish puddle
toward the flowing waters of life!
Leave the room where they put the dirty sandals
and return to the royal seat of the soul!
Be off! Be off!
O soul,
leave behind this world of separation
and come with us to the world of union.
How long will you play in this dusty world
like a child filling his skirt with worthless stones?
Cast away the burdens of the earth
and fly upward toward heaven!
Put away your childish care
and join the royal banquet.
Behold the countless ways this body has entrapped you!
Break its deadly hold.
Rise up, lift your head clear of this delusion.
Reach for the Holy Book with your right hand
You are not like a child
who doesn’t know right from left
God said to the mind, “Return from where you came.”
He said to the hand of Death,
“Grab hold of worldly men.”
He said to the soul, “Fly to the Unseen.
Take all the treasure you can carry and cry no more.”
You ask, “Who is the King?”—
Tell the world that you are the King!
Your knowledge has brought the question,
And your grace has given the answer.
- Mewlana Jalaluddin Balkhi Rumi (r.a)
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Today I had the privilege to attend the Orthodox Easter Sunday service at the Russian Orthodox St. George Monastery, where Abbot and Prior Daniil Irbits led local Russians and recently arrived Ukrainian refugees in celebration, in Goetschendorf near Berlin, Germany. Irbits and his team of monks, who are from countries across eastern Europe, have taken in and assisted several dozen Ukrainian refugees since Russia's military invasion of Ukraine in February. "Today we prayed for peace and the people in Ukraine forced to celebrate Easter in bunkers," said Irbits. The outspoken support of Patriarch Kirill, leader in Moscow of the Russian Orthodox Church, of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war is at odds with many Russian Orthodox communities outside of Russia. #gettyimages#gettyimagesnews#photojournalism#religion#easter#orthodoxchurch#russianorthodox#russianorthodoxchurch#ukraine#warinukraine#refugees
Children from different cities including Mariupol who fled the war in Ukraine take part in a bracelet making workshop conducted by Valentyna, Olena and Olga who also left Ukraine due to the Russian invasion at the Galicia Jewish Museum on April 01, 2022 in Krakow, Poland. More than four million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion of that country on February 24. Millions more have been internally displaced.
Has been 40 days since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I have been covering how the Ukrainian refugees' integration in my home city is going. One topic that usually is difficult to access, is children. I have been lucky enough to cooperate with museums and youth centres in order to photograph the Ukrainian young generation integration. Has been a contrast in scenes compared to the border area. Krakow has now more than 150 000 refugees and tries to quickly integrate and offer a taste of normal life to the newcomers.
On assignment for @gettyimages and I can t stop highlighting the massive support from my editors @maralxdeghati and @jayrdavies .
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